PRGE 2016: 11th Annual Portland Retro Gaming Expo

So what is the Portland Retro Gaming Expo?

The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is an annual convention to support the hobby of classic video game collecting. PRGE aims to recognize the history of home video game systems and their authors, manufacturers and players.

Loosely defined, a classic is any video game system prior to the most recently released by any manufacturer. By this definition the Nintendo Gamecube, original XBox and Playstation 2 have recently moved into the classic realm (replaced by the Wii, XBox 360 and Playstation 3 respectively).

That said, the classic gaming hobby is most closely associated with the Atari 2600/5200/7800, Nintendo NES and SNES systems, Sega Master System/Genesis, Vectrex and other systems released in the 1980s and early 1990s. We have also seen a growing interest in games for classic computer systems from Commodore, Apple, Atari 8-bit, Texas Instruments (TI), Tandy and others.